community curation enabling the research community to contribute annotations directly to wormbase...
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Community Curation
Enabling the research community to contribute annotations directly to
WormBase
Mary Ann Tuli
Why do we need Community Curation?
• Increasing number of papers • Backlog of existing papers
15,000 Papers
Primary data papers without variation phenotype data
Primary data papers with pos-sible variation phenotype data
Curated
The Solution
• Changes in curation software & database infrastructure = more curation!
We Need Your Help!
Community Curation System
• Easy to use.• Autocomplete functions.• Remembers you.• Enforced standards across all forms.
Benefits to the Submitter
• You know your data best.• Vested interest in public availability of data. • Automated inclusion in the database.• Attribution on public website.
Expedious Processing
More Data in WormBase
Benefits Whole Scientific Community
Community Curation
Community Curation
Allele Phenotype Submission
Can view existing data
Autofill
Allele Phenotype Submission
Click on ? to see help
Allele Phenotype Submission
Submission of new alleles encouraged
Allele Phenotype Submission
Links to ontologies encourage standardised terms
Allele Phenotype Submission
Allele Sequence Submission
Same functions as Allele Phenotype form
Pipeline
• Acknowledgement to submitter.• Email notification sent to relevant curators.• Curator validates submission.• Website– Attribution
